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Red posted:Can't believe I found this page: I wish real court had testimony which began with "When Stegron the Dinosaur Man..." 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I wish real court had testimony which began with "When Stegron the Dinosaur Man..." That's an easy fix. Get your name legally changed and then commit some crimes. 
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Sep 6, 2016 20:15
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Not quite the same, but the IRL Supreme Court did have to make a ruling about whether X-Men's mutants are human or not.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:43
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Detective No. 27 posted:Not quite the same, but the IRL Supreme Court did have to make a ruling about whether X-Men's mutants are human or not. And Marvel was gunning for the latter ruling, because toys representing "humans" have higher taxes.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:47
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Companies do that kind of thing all the time. Converse puts flocking on the soles of Chucks so they can be classified as slippers and get lower tariffs.
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Sep 6, 2016 21:11
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Lobok posted:This is why it was weird during the Superior Spider-Man series when Ghost Peter is trying to tell Dr. Octopus-as-Spidey that he has to go out on patrol. Most of the reason for the nightly patrol was to get photographs but with working at Horizon it was not clear why he had to go out and actively seek crime for its own sake. ...something something great power something blah responsibility? I dunno, probably not an important part of the character. Kwyndig posted:It depends on if she knows. I don't remember where we are vis a vis Aunt May knowing who Spider-Man is, but whenever she does know it's Peter (Yes, Spidey Continuity is so dumb she's found out several times) she comes around to supporting Spider-Man pretty quickly.
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Sep 7, 2016 00:34
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Gaz-L posted:...something something great power something blah responsibility? I dunno, probably not an important part of the character. Yeah Spider-Man fights crime not because he's a good person or revenge or anything like that. He fights it because he feels he has to. Even if the only crime left was patent law violations he'd be Spider-Lawyer out there trying to prosecute those bastards.
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Sep 7, 2016 00:51
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Seek out crime just by swinging around I mean. He could follow leads or get info from cops or Avengers. But he was getting mad at Octavius for not spending his night out just hoping to come across something when Ock had a surveillance system set up already.
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Sep 7, 2016 01:15
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Lurdiak posted:It's even worse than that. Going by the original Sentry mini, his Pulitzer was on the mantelpiece the whole time, just everyone forgot he'd won it, and he had a psychic bling spot preventing him from seeing it. So when he lost his job at the Bugle due to downsizing, he was going to all these job interviews and people were like "Sorry dude, you ain't got the qualifications." and he'd go home and mope next to his invisible Pulitzer. This is like the perfect description of Spider-Man/Peter Parker's life
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Sep 7, 2016 01:29
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Lobok posted:Seek out crime just by swinging around I mean. He could follow leads or get info from cops or Avengers. But he was getting mad at Octavius for not spending his night out just hoping to come across something when Ock had a surveillance system set up already. I've often wondered how efficient the "hang out until crime happens" method would actually be. Not very I'm assuming.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:06
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Scaramouche posted:I've often wondered how efficient the "hang out until crime happens" method would actually be. Not very I'm assuming. It'd probably work out okay in Marvel New York, given the high concentration of super villains. It might even work in real New York, outside of a major city though? Well most police patrols aren't to actually catch criminals, they're just deterrence and to be on the move if a crime does happen.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:09
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Scaramouche posted:I've often wondered how efficient the "hang out until crime happens" method would actually be. Not very I'm assuming. I thought his spider-sense would detect crimes or whatever. Plus he's out there if somebody gets in a wreck or something and needs non-crime related assistance.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:10
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Nope, all his spider-sense does (or at least, all it consistently does that doesn't get hosed about with via writers) is warn him when he's about to get his poo poo pushed in by something he's not aware of. Attacks by, say, Venom don't set it off (I don't recall if Carnage also shares this bypass of it) because he wore Venom for a while, and thus the symbiote is allowed through because ?????
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Sep 7, 2016 02:38
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That's an easy answer. The Spider-sense thinks Venom is Peter because it was bonded to him for so long. So it doesn't register it as a threat.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:40
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Scaramouche posted:I've often wondered how efficient the "hang out until crime happens" method would actually be. Not very I'm assuming. Neil Gaiman wrote that alternate universe Batman story where Bruce dressed up to fight crime, except there wasn't any most nights. So Alfred got his old theater buddies to start pretending to be supervillains so Batman would have someone to go after.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:46
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The spider-sense being a warning of direct danger is a later invention of writers trying to codify what it does. It doesn't even do that consistently - Newspaper Spider-man routinely gets his poo poo pushed in by stuff he's not aware of, like bricks. Early Spider-man is more than happy to have it warn of vague 'threats' for foreshadowing, use it as a story device to get him where he needs to go without making him a detective, and his Spider-tracers work by broadcasting some signal that triggers it which he can follow to their location.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:52
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Travis343 posted:I thought his spider-sense would detect crimes or whatever. Plus he's out there if somebody gets in a wreck or something and needs non-crime related assistance.
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Sep 7, 2016 02:59
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Depending on the writer as well, spider sense is directly hooked up to the web of fate/spider totem business. Kaine, who's whole powers were Spidey's but violently exaggerated into unfamiliarity, would have uncontrollable visions of the future and stuff. I think the clones all didn't set off each other's spidey sense as well, for the reason Lurdiak talked about above.
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Sep 7, 2016 03:01
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Sure, but Kaine is The Other .
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Sep 7, 2016 03:14
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So Carnage doesn't also share the Spider-Sense bypass? For some reason, I assumed it did since it came from Venom. Huh! VVVV I know even less about Carnage than I do about Venom. My knowledge of Carnage consists mostly of:
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Sep 7, 2016 04:16
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Malachite_Dragon posted:So Carnage doesn't also share the Spider-Sense bypass? For some reason, I assumed it did since it came from Venom. Huh! I'm pretty sure that in his first few appearances Peter notes that Carnage doesn't trigger his spider-sense.
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Sep 7, 2016 04:25
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I know even less about Carnage than I do about Venom. My knowledge of Carnage consists mostly of: Nuh uh. 
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He's not wrong.
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Sep 7, 2016 05:24
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It checks out, give him $200 and the key to the city for a day.
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Sep 7, 2016 05:26
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One time Carnage escaped by sending the Symbiote out through an online game.
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Sep 7, 2016 05:28
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:One time Carnage escaped by sending the Symbiote out through an online game. Minimum Carnage is an amazing name for a book at the very least. Oh gently caress all y'all, I'm gonna re-read Maximum Carnage now.
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Sep 7, 2016 07:57
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What other comic book character has an amazing theme song by Green Jellÿ?
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Sep 7, 2016 08:11
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peter never needed to go on patrol, because whenever he tried to do something unrelated to being a super hero a villain would pop in to ruin it anyway.
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:One time Carnage escaped by sending the Symbiote out through an online game. One time a dude was watching Carnage through a video conference and said it wasn't real, just special effects, so Carnage sent a tendril through the telecommunications system somehow and drilled through the dude's face. Even up to the moment before the drill went through his face he thought it was some impressive 3D hologram coming out of his screen. Edit: Found it. Venom: Carnage Unleashed #3 
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Sep 7, 2016 15:09
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Branding failure, there, Steph.
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Sep 7, 2016 15:14
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Way to ruin your outfit. You think Clark can pay for you to keep doing that on a reporter's salary? Or does this version of Supergirl have a job?
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Sep 7, 2016 15:26
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Kwyndig posted:Way to ruin your outfit. You think Clark can pay for you to keep doing that on a reporter's salary? It's how she gets rid of all of the Christmas sweaters she gets from the Kents.
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Sep 7, 2016 15:49
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Kwyndig posted:Way to ruin your outfit. You think Clark can pay for you to keep doing that on a reporter's salary? ...I think this was at the same time as the very short lived KSD run on Supergirl where she was a college student but Lana Lang was bankrolling her?
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Sep 7, 2016 17:15
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How many times do you think she's got to ruin sweaters before realizing that Clark wears button down shirts for this reason? Like there's so many superheroes running around. You rip off your shirt and fly into action, but whoops, the Goddamn Outsiders beat you to it. Now you've got to fly home and get a new shirt.
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Sep 7, 2016 17:27
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Yeah but then you're just buying buttons by the pallet and spending all your downtime seeing them back onto your shirts. The correct answer is to be Peter Parker and just tell everyone your secret identity.
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Sep 7, 2016 17:42
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Yeah but then you're just buying buttons by the pallet and spending all your downtime seeing them back onto your shirts. The correct answer is to be Peter Parker and just tell everyone your secret identity. Batman No. 6: 
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Sep 7, 2016 17:46
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redbackground posted:2nd panel is me visiting NYC Reminds me of this classic, sorry don't know the source 
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redbackground posted:2nd panel is me visiting NYC Oh Kite Man, don't you know you could earn millions selling glider rigs to extreme sports enthusiasts instead of committing petty theft?
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